From J. D. Hooker [18 April 1876]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [18 Apr 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 49–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10282 |
From J. D. Hooker 28 January 1876
Summary
Asks CD to come up to vote for Lankester.
Severely critical of R. L. Tait’s paper on Nepenthes communicated to the Royal Society.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 51–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10371 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 January 1876
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 403 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10374 |
From J. D. Hooker 8 April 1876
Summary
Requests CD’s evaluation of the work of the entomologist Robert McLachlan, who is up for F.R.S. in competition with the physiologist A. H. Garrod.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 53–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10444 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 April [1876]
Summary
McLachlan has as strong a claim to be F.R.S. as any entomologist, but Garrod’s work is of higher quality.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 404–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10445 |
From J. D. Hooker 11 April 1876
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10446 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 April [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 406 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10457 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 April [1876]
Summary
CD preparing new English and German editions of his early geology [of the voyage of the Beagle] books. Asks for Hooker’s copies as he no longer has his own.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 407 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10471 |
From J. D. Hooker 26 April 1876
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10476 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 June 1876
Summary
JDH’s suggested text for Lyell’s tablet in Westminster Abbey.
Vigner[?] separates digestive principle from Nepenthes, disproving R. L. Tait.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 57–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10540 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 June [1876]
Summary
CD and family suggest inscriptions for Lyell memorial at Westminster Abbey.
CD communicating H. Airy’s paper on phyllotaxis to the Royal Society.
Frank observes pod-like emanations from glands of insectivorous plant ingesting solid insect particles [see 10520].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 June [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 408–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10542 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 June [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 June [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 413–14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10543 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 July 1876
Summary
JDH hopes Thiselton-Dyer does not discourage Frank’s investigation of insectivorous plants.
Preparing new editions of botany text-books.
His marriage is set for August.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 July 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10556 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 August 1876
Summary
Asa Gray’s directed variation would make natural selection superfluous.
CD has read new theological reconciliations of Darwinism and religion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Aug 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 415–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10576 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 September [1876]
Summary
CD grieves over death of Frank’s wife Amy; worries that it will weaken Frank’s determination to pursue his scientific work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Sept [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 417–18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10592 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 September 1876
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 60–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10597 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 September 1876]
Summary
JDH again expresses his condolences.
The Glasgow BAAS meeting was good, except for Tait’s shameful attack on Tyndall.
Immensely impressed on Scottish geological and glacial features. Is CD aware that the earth beneath Glen Roy roads was found to contain freshwater diatoms?
Recounts the itinerary of his honeymoon in Scotland.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Sept 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 62–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10605 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 September [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Sept [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 419–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10606 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 October 1876
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 66–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10642 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 October [1876]
Summary
Frank, who has been reclusive and very hardworking, is returning from Wales after a period of mourning for Amy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 423–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10644 |
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